{"id":1843,"date":"2022-03-21T14:10:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2022-03-21T14:10:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:10:21","slug":"bumble_b-lookingoutwards03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/bumble_b\/03\/21\/bumble_b-lookingoutwards03\/","title":{"rendered":"bumble_b-LookingOutwards03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I chose the Simpsons vs. Family Guy project (which I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courses.art.cmu.edu\/2021s\/60210a\/bumble_b\/04\/12\/bumble_b-08-lookingoutwards\/\">here<\/a>) that I still maintain is the coolest freaking thing ever! But in the interest of variety and learning, of course, I found another project that I really enjoyed, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/mlart.co\/item\/a-stylegan-trained-on-eboy_s-database-of-pixel-art\">Max Braun&#8217;s StyleGAN trained on eBoy&#8217;s database of pixel art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1860\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1r2wONfsLz1qhrjj3PGWUBg-640x320.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1r2wONfsLz1qhrjj3PGWUBg-640x320.png 640w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1r2wONfsLz1qhrjj3PGWUBg.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1861 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1hPzJaVTzCA_GcHQEmZ0uhA.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1862 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1p6uPnBapjM3n6ZLtvIeR7A.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1863\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1sNW4UGiNsJpQH5XPmW7BTQ.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Basically, he fed a bunch of images to a machine, then told the machine to make its own of them! Since I&#8217;m a sucker for all things pixel art, this really stuck out to me artistically. You can read his documentation <a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/how-i-accidentally-created-an-infinite-pixel-hellscape-fe070551365f\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoy old Flash games, and this reminded me of them a lot! I just love the old\/2000s pixel art style. If I ever get the chance to make a video game, I want it to look just like this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I chose the Simpsons vs. Family Guy project (which I wrote about here) that I still maintain is the coolest freaking thing ever! But in the interest of variety and learning, of course, I found another project that I really enjoyed, which is Max Braun&#8217;s StyleGAN trained on eBoy&#8217;s database of pixel art. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/bumble_b\/03\/21\/bumble_b-lookingoutwards03\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;bumble_b-LookingOutwards03&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}